Alabama This article is more than 2 months old‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombsThis article is more than 2 months oldKelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old expecting baby girls, was not diagnosed with the rare anomaly uterus didelphys until last spring
An Alabama woman with two uteruses is expecting baby girls in both wombs, an “astounding” and rare pregnancy, according to doctors.
Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old mom of three was born with a rare uterine anomaly called uterus didelphys, or two uteruses.
Children and teenagersObituaryBeverly Cleary obituaryChildren’s writer who drew on her experience of growing up in Portland, Oregon, for her Ramona booksThe children’s writer Beverly Cleary, who has died aged 104, was best known for her series of books about Ramona and her family, and other stories set in the Grant Park neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon. While the realistic settings of the area she grew up in appealed most directly to US readers, her sure touch in representing familiar home and school situations in a lightly humorous way through her attractive, vivid characters ensured her popularity and critical acclaim around the world.
Over thereVeneziaThe Italian club’s American owners have attempted to turned the team into a business that goes beyond soccer. Now the on-field results need to follow
Not even Venezia were sure what they were getting when they signed Tanner Tessmann from FC Dallas in 2021. The club’s general manager at the time, Alexander Menta, described the midfielder during an interview with Grant Wahl as “my big bet”. He loved Tessman’s size, athleticism and work ethic but those attributes alone do not make an elite soccer player.
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This breathtaking dance adaptation by Boyle, Boy Blue’s Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz fully inhabits Manchester’s stunning new £240m venue
If you’re going to launch the biggest cultural building in Britain since Tate Modern, one that has cost somewhere in the region of £240m, then what better way to do it than with a dance adaptation of The Matrix, a cult series of movies that gained many of their main effects through groundbreaking CGI?
How to live nowBarbecueDon’t let a little snow stop you eating outside. Top chefs explain how to cook, serve and stay warm, whatever the weather. Plus, mouth-watering food and drink recipes
In Siberia, barbecue season never stops, even in sub-zero temperatures. “We’d go out into the woods, clear the snow and have a party. It’s an amazing, elemental experience, being in nature around a fire,” recalls Alissa Timoshkina, a cookery writer raised in Omsk.
OpinionMedical researchIn praise of ... Augusto and Michaela OdoneEditorialA kind of life came to an end last week, when Lorenzo Odone died the day after he turned 30. It was a peculiar life because, since childhood, Lorenzo had been ravaged by adrenoleukodystrophy, a genetic disorder which stripped him of hearing, sight and movement, and left him confined to bed. But it was a life nonetheless, and it lasted as long as it did only because of the extraordinary way his parents cherished it.
Wellness or hellness?Health & wellbeingThe sudden white blaze disorients me, like a cockroach caught in the kitchen. But will it make me feel better?
Are you feeling depressed? Lethargic? Is it because every year our social, environmental and economic situation gets worse? Or is it because reduced daylight has negatively affected your circadian rhythm? If the latter, then I have good news! There’s a lamp for that.
Vitamin L by Lumie is a powerful rectangular sun simulator that “treats the symptoms of winter blues and Sad”.
Books blogFictionMollie Panter-Downes, a wartime voice to treaureVirtually forgotten these days, her work provides an unforgettably vivid impression of life in the second world warIn 1939, Mollie Panter-Downes was 33. She had written her first novel at 16, and quickly established a living for herself from her writing. During the 1930s, she sold poems and stories to the New Yorker. At the outbreak of second world war, realising they had access to a valuable voice of England, they asked her to write their "
Well actuallyDisastrous events affect us all – some directly, others through exposure – and can make preserving mental health difficult
On 7 October, Hamas killed 1,400 Israelis and kidnapped about 200 more. Since then, Israel has blockaded Gaza and killed more than 8,000 Palestinians. Simultaneously, a war rages on in Ukraine; the citizens of Maui attempt to rebuild after deadly wildfires in August; and Turkey repairs from earthquakes in February that killed over 60,000.